The Story of My “Second Life”

So you’re ready to dive into Second Life? Great! Thanks to Linden Lab and a partnership with ISTE, educators coming inworld for the first time have a streamlined, educationally-focused starting point to guide them along the way. Those of us currently in Second Life all remember the day we ‘rezzed’ for the first time and [...]

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Here’s a quick little sidebar I wrote to run with an article about Second Life that I, Knowclue Kidd, Zsusa Thomsen, Claird Loon and FIl Santiago worked on together recently. It will appear in the quarterly newsletter for our state ISTE chapter, the New Jersey Association for Educational Technology (NJAET) in a few weeks. Anyway, [...]

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Looking for a permanent place to call your own in Second Life (on the main grid)? Don’t want to deal with the hassle and cost of getting your own island? Not sure what sim to choose or who to do business with? Keep reading, you’ll get those answers, and more… EduIsland 5, the latest educationally-focused [...]

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I’ll never forget the first time I met Fleet Goldenberg, my landlord on EduIsland II. He was showing several properties on the as-yet-undeveloped green expanse of our island to several other people. Though I wavered on and initially lost an opportunity to lease from him, he came through later, and today, I maintain two properties [...]

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Those of us who have been in Second Life for a while will likely nod our heads in agreement with much of Kathy’s October 26th post on her Second Life-specific Lighthouse Learning blog. (Kathy is well known to many educators by way of the Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators). In it, she presents a couple [...]

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Looking for a professionally-written, mainstream edtech media article on Second Life to share with colleagues who haven’t dipped their toes into the metaverse yet? Consider this piece over on Education World by Doug Johnson, Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato Public Schools, and one of our intrepid team of virtual explorers over at [...]

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Just came across this neat, free resource worth sharing … SLTutorials.net. People have been posting Second Life how-to videos on YouTube and other sites for a while but this appears to be a very large and well organized collection in one place. The tutorials I saw were either video or annotated screenshots but they are [...]

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Managed to read (skim) this book while sitting at a local Board of Education meeting last night …found it to be generally okay, and easy read, with a good bit of helpful information, though nothing earth-shattering. For $23 or so, I think it’s a good starting point for people to review before their first experience [...]

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Ok, so I knew it had to happen eventually. Second Life is so big and so important and getting the attention of so many really, really smart people that it was just a matter of time until I saw some crazy mad awesome stuff that isn’t specifically educationally-related. Check out the Metaverse Roadmap. Quoting from [...]

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Here I am chatting with Decka Mah (Lindey McKeown in RL) using Skype while in Second Life. I found her via Kittygloom Cassady (of ISTE fame) and we spent about 45 minutes together. I was blown away. Check out my SL photostream for a few more pics. I need to figure out how to capture [...]

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